Octubre (Spanish: October) was a Communist literary magazine which was published in Madrid between 1933 and 1934.[1] The subtitle of the magazine was Escritores y artistas revolutionarios (Spanish: Revolutionary writers and artists).[1]

Octubre
CategoriesLiterary magazine
Founder
Founded1933 (1933)
First issueSummer 1933
Final issue1934
CountrySpain
Based inMadrid
LanguageSpanish

History and profile

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The founders of Octubre were Rafael Alberti, his wife María Teresa León and César Arconada.[2][3][4] The magazine was started in Summer 1933[5] after the visit of Alberti and León to the Soviet Union.[6] Some of the contributors included Antonio Machado, Emilio Prados and Luis Cernuda.[1][7]

Octubre was published on high-quality paper and frequently featured photographs most of which displayed scenes from Soviet life.[1] The magazine had a Marxist orientation.[8] It also adopted a Soviet-type avant-garde literary approach[1] and had a Stalinist political stance.[9] Although the magazine was not financed by the Comintern, it featured some articles, essays, and photos provided by the Soviets.[10]

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Estrella de Diego; Jaime Brihuega (Spring 1993). "Art and Politics in Spain, 1928-36". Art Journal. 52 (1): 57. doi:10.1080/00043249.1993.10791495.
  2. ^ "Rafael Alberti" (in Spanish). Santa & Cole. 29 October 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  3. ^ Gina Herrmann (December 2001). "Nostralgia: María Teresa León, Rafael Alberti, and the Memory of Absence". Revista Hispánica Moderna. 54 (2): 329. JSTOR 30207965.
  4. ^ Silvina Schammah Gesser; Alexandra Cheveleva Dergacheva (2018). "An Engagé in Spain: Commitment and Its Downside in Rafael Alberti's Philo-Sovietism". In Raanan Rein; Joan Maria Thomàs (eds.). Spain 1936: Year Zero. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press. p. 177. ISBN 978-1845198923.
  5. ^ Grant Daryl Moss (2010). Political poetry in the wake of the Second Spanish Republic: Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén (MA thesis). Ohio State University. p. 33.
  6. ^ "Rafael Alberti; Spanish Poet Was Last Survivor of 'Generation of 1927 Artists'". Los Angeles Times. 1 November 1999. Retrieved 12 March 2022.
  7. ^ Salvador Jiménez-Fajardo (1985). Multiple Spaces: The Poetry of Rafael Alberti. London: Tamesis Books. p. 26. ISBN 978-0-7293-0199-2.
  8. ^ Carl-Henrik Bjerstrom (2014). Re-imagining the nation: Josep Renau and the politics of culture in Republican Spain, 1931-1919 (PhD thesis). University of London. p. 58.
  9. ^ Grant D. Moss (2017). Political Poetry in the Wake of the Second Spanish Republic: Rafael Alberti, Pablo Neruda, and Nicolás Guillén. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-4985-4771-0.
  10. ^ Lisa A. Kirschenbaum (2017). "The Russian Revolution and Spanish Communists, 1931–5". Journal of Contemporary History. 52 (4): 899. doi:10.1177/0022009417723974. S2CID 159939003.
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